Award-winning interior designer Shabnam Gupta created a radiant interior for this two-storeyed, 4,000 sq ft apartment at Indiabulls Sky, Lower Parel, Mumbai. With a clear brief that the home must reflect her clients love of art and colours, the designer, who has made unabashed creativity her signature, ensured that it also harmonised creativity with a sense of peacefulness—a ‘method to the madness’ of sorts.

One enters the apartment through a long, monotone passage in soft pastel shades, featuring paintings by several acclaimed artists. This gallery-like walkway opens into a bold dining space, where a beautiful rust colour adorns the walls and ceiling. A bespoke hanging light with glass globes complements the contemporary furniture, art and knickknacks from the clients’ travels, creating a stunning visual.

The living room is the only formal space in the house and is flooded with natural light through the day, owing to the fact that it is surrounded by large glass panels on three sides. A variety of furnishings in unique shapes, a daybed with a canvas roof, and columns painted in black with hand-painted artwork are surrounded by plants along the periphery.

The wall of the staircase connecting the two floors tells a personal, visual story. It begins with pieces of art collected from the family’s travels, leads into a cluster of family photographs and merges into a display of hand painted artwork.

On the second floor, the ‘den’ was designed to facilitate relaxation. It is dominated by velvet fabrics in green, magenta and blue, against half green, half white walls, with personalised wall art. The master bedroom features a four-poster bed, a study and a walk-in wardrobe, with plum wine walls and a taupe library unit.

It’s safe to say then, that this isn’t anything like your conventional metropolitan apartment!